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“You naively told the paedophile hunters where you lived and who you were. There came a knock at your door and they confronted you and taped your admissions.”

But he said the offences had gone ‘no further than undertaking filthy correspondence online with men posing as children’.

Beer, of St Margaret’s Road, was given eight months in jail, suspended for two years. He was told to do 80 unpaid work, take part in rehabilitation days with probation, and was made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and register for 10 years.